On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:04:19PM +0200, Scharf Yuval wrote:
> Yuval Scharf
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> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:54:38 +0200 (IST)
> From: Scharf Yuval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: A question about LILO
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> Hi,
> I used to have Gentoo in /dev/hda2
> Now I have Gentoo in /dev/hdb3
> I have Windows XP in /dev/hda1
>
> After telling the BIOS to start in my second HDD
> and using LILO to set hdb as my boot drive
> I can boot to my new Gentoo but I can't boot to Windows.
> What should I do in order to boot to Windows?
First, I would recommend GRUB over LILO any day. But if you
don't want to take the time right now to learn about GRUB that's
certainly understandable.
That said, my next suggestion is to change the BIOS back. Linux
should have no trouble booting from the second hard drive, but
Windows will not do it. So if you change the BIOS back so it
boots off of the first hard drive, then you have to install your
LILO boot sector to the MBA on /dev/hda.
A possible alternative is to get LILO to fake Windows out. I
can't remember off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure there
is some way to configure LILO (via lilo.conf) so that when it
boots to the second hard drive it somehow makes it look like this
hard drive is actually the first hard drive to Windows. There
should be discussion of it in the LILO man page. I'd look but I
don't even have LILO installed.
- richard
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